Edgar Mitchell

Born

September 17, 1930

Died

February 4, 2016 (aged 85)

Known as

military officer, astronaut, aircraft pilot, military flight engineer, businessperson, screenwriter

Edgar Dean Mitchell was a United States Navy officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, ufologist, and NASA astronaut. As the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 14 in 1971 he spent nine hours working on the lunar surface in the Fra Mauro Highlands region, and was the sixth person to walk on the Moon.

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